eternity
The verdict
“eternity” is uncommon French (frequency #65,139 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,139
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Éternité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-eternity · eternity · French
eternity · rank #65,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,139
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ESN
Nearest frequency peer: ESN (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « eternity »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- esbroufe
esbroufe
34,865 corpus weight
- esclandre
esclandre
34,864 corpus weight
- ESN
ESN
34,863 corpus weight
- eternity
eternity
34,862 corpus weight
- ethniquement
ethniquement
34,861 corpus weight
- euclidienne
euclidienne
34,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « eternity » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eternity |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « eternity » en français
Rare enough to double-check
eternity is uncommon French at frequency #65,139 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Éternité.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eternity in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is eternity, spelled E-T-E-R-N-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Éternité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eternity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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